Vodka Bottle Light

Ok, let me just start by saying that I did not drink the vodka! I made vanilla for Christmas gifts this year and I admit I bought the Absolut Vodka because of the cobalt blue bottle. 

The wine bottles filled with lights are at every craft show I have been to lately.  They have lots of different decorations and I love the way the lights look inside them.

But I don’t like how the cord comes out the top of the bottle.  Sooo, I got out the glass drill and made a hole at the bottom of the bottle.  This hole is just big enough to stuff the lights and cord through it. You can find the lights that don’t have the connector plug at the end. 

I added a burlap bow with a blue stripe that matches the bottle and tied on some acorns jingle bells.

They used to be fall colors, but I spray painted them…

Loving how it looks!

Here it is lit up outside on the deck with the other décor!  And now it sits by the Christmas tree.

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Knotted Burlap Wreath

I have been wanting to make a burlap wreath…I bought the burlap a several months ago.  It is actually a burlap tree wrap, four inches wide with a few blue threads in it. 

I couldn’t decide how I wanted to do this…trying to figure it out, I came up with the idea of knotting the burlap every so often (sorry, but I did not measure it out) and gluing the knot onto the wreath base.

It’s not perfect, but it is quite cute.  I suppose if a person wanted to be perfect, you could make the distance between the knots exactly the same.  Not my thing, though, so I just knotted willy nilly!

Here’s what I used:

I started with a grapevine wreath, but you could also use any other old wreath (my grapevine wreath was an old one that I had pulled the old decorations off of).  I bought the tree wrap here.  I got a 100 yard roll of it for around $10. 

I started knotting the burlap and hot gluing it on!

The whole process took no more than half an hour.  I am going to use it outside on a tree near my driveway.

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